Jimmy Kimmel Says James Talarico Interview Won’t Air on TV Amid FCC Pressure

Under the apparent threat by the FCC, Jimmy Kimmel says an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico that was originally set to air on his late-night show on Thursday will now air exclusively on YouTube. “For the whole 20-plus years of our show, in fact, I’ve been interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all, just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio, etc., etc,” Kimmel. said during the Wednesday monologue of Jimmy Kimmel Live. “I’ve interviewed a lot of political candidates, from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself. I interviewed Donald Trump when he was running for president in 2015. And at that time, when he was the one sitting next to me, he seemed to have no problem with the idea of talk show hosts interviewing candidates. In fact, he was very eager to come back for another interview, which he did just before he became the nominee in 2016.” “But for some reason — and I can’t seem to figure out what that reason is — something has changed,” Kimmel continued. “Now that he is president, his FCC has threatened me, threatened our show, threatened our network, ABC, and our affiliates, our local stations, based on simp...